


“The way he was talking, I didn’t just make a lot of that up. “Bruce Lee was kind of an arrogant guy,” Tarantino told press about depicting the actor in such a cocky manner.

Inosanto pointed to a line in Tarantino’s script where Bruce Lee makes a dig at Muhammad Ali and said Lee “would have never said anything derogatory about Muhammad Ali because he worshiped the ground Muhammad Ali walked on.” One of the biggest points of controversy surrounding the film is the scene in which Bruce Lee (Mike Moh) and Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) fight each other on the set of “The Green Hornet.” Bruce Lee’s daughter, Shannon, condemned Tarantino for portraying the martial arts legend as an “arrogant asshole who was full of hot air,” while Lee’s protégé Dan Inosanto said the film did not accurately portray the late action star. Quentin Tarantino broke his silence on the backlash to “ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” during the film’s recent Moscow press conference.
